Ziad Nawfal for Movement Radio’s “Exploring Mediterranean Futures” // 15 February 2022

This mix was commissioned by Movement Athens for its radio festival “Exploring Mediterranean Futures” [Feb. 15-19, 2022], a 5-day radio festival focused on the sounds of the Mediterranean, searching for geographical and chronological connections through its culture, ideas and people.

Ziad Nawfal’s mix presents music recorded by various artists and bands from Beirut’s indie and experimental music scenes, between 2010 and 2021. A few of the tracks were officially released in some form or another, some of them are early drafts and demos, and a couple consist of live sessions recorded during Nawfal’s 35-year tenure at Beirut’s crumbling government station Radio Liban.

1. Fadi Tabbal – After the Fire, Before the End [Unreleased]
2. Charbel Haber & Sary Moussa – And Yet Another Romance on A Sinking Ship [V/A The Drone Sessions Vol. 1]
3. Scrambled Eggs & A Trio – Beach Party at Mirna el Chalouhi (Diamond Setter’s Rework) [Unreleased]
4. The Art of Boo – BoomKaboom [Unreleased]
5. Safa – Dominant Gene [V/A Lost Archives]
6. Jad Atoui – FDBCK [Unreleased]
7. Tres Milliones Dolares – Jon Black [V/A Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music]
8. Ziad Moukarzel – Questions of Worry [V/A Anthology of Electroacoustic Lebanese Music]
9. Court Circuit (Osman Arabi & Heathen) – Ruptured Session February 2010 [Unreleased]
10. Jawad Nawfal – Nawa Athar 0 (feat. Aya Metwalli) [V/A Istimrar Phase 1]
11. Abed Kobeissy & Sary Moussa – A Simple Song About Weather & Murder [V/A Istimrar Phase 1]
12. Aya Metwalli – Red Curtains Forever [Unreleased]
13. Sharif Sehnaoui & Mazen Kerbaj – Ruptured Session April 2012 [Unreleased]
14. Jana Saleh – Soupire [V/A Istimrar Phase 1]
15. Julia Sabra – Three Days [V/A Istimrar Phase 1]
16. Fadi Tabbal & Julia Sabra – Roots [V/A The Drone Sessions Vol. 1]
17. Marc Codsi – Untitled #3 [Unreleased]
18. Youmna Saba – Nafas [V/A Ruptured Sessions Vol. 6: For Beirut]
19. Anthony Sahyoun – Two Foxes Trotting on A Lane in Qartaba [Unreleased]
20. Radwan Ghazi Moumneh – Ya Dam’at Al ‘Ain [V/A Ruptured Sessions Vol. 4]

[This mix was commissioned and produced by Onassis Cultural Center, and presented for the first time in the frame of MOVEMENT RADIO]